In a reflection of modern fascination with all things ancient — especially ancient Rome — the Houston Museum of Natural Science has opened a display of Roman artifacts, including several items that ...

The 13th century Torre dei Conti in Rome partially collapsed during renovation work. One worker who was extracted from the ...

Romania's Foreign Ministry has mourned the death of a construction worker after the partial collapse of the 13th century ...

By 150 CE, the Empire was carved up and maintained by a network of stone/gravel/sand highways stretching 180,000 miles.

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

Meet Itiner-e, a new high-resolution digital dataset and map of the Roman Empire’s roads around 150 CE. A team of researchers ...

Time and chance may erase all trace of even those who have been great in their day. And there were many opportunities for greatness, albeit fleeting, in the Roman empire of the third century AD.

In today's issue of Current Biology, an international group of researchers has published some of the first direct DNA evidence of malaria in Imperial Italy. While the study did not find DNA of ...